Bharatiya Janata Party MLA T Raja Singh, who represents the Goshamahal constituency in Hyderabad, was heard issuing the threat to those opposed to the Ram temple in Ayodhya in a video of Ram Navmi celebrations shot on April 5 which has gone viral. If Ram Mandir is built in Ayodhya they will create ‘tehelka’ (chaos) in the entire country. We welcome this. In fact, we were waiting for this day for the past several years so that when you traitors raise your heads, we will behead you,” the MLA said.

Earlier on May 3, 2015 the law maker Raja Singh and his associates allegedly attacked a police constable in Mangalahat, Hyderabad. The MLA slapped the constable and injured his neck. He also punched the officer, said inspector R. Srinivas. The incident occurred when drunk men of a wedding party raised the DJ volume. The people called Dial 100 and we sent our team. When they refused to stop the constable and switched it off. Then Raja Singh, who lives nearby, came and attacked the officers, the inspector said. Raja Singh, who was earlier booked for hate speech and riot cases, tops the list of legislators with the most number of cases booked against them.

Hyderabad Police on Sunday registered a case against Singh on the complaint of Amjed Ullah Khan, the spokesman for Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT), a local organisation of Muslims. He has been booked by Dabeerpura police under IPC section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), Police Inspector D Venkanna Naik told PTI.

When contacted on Sunday, Singh appeared defiant and said he can give his life for the sake of the Ram temple and “even take the life of traitors who oppose the building of Ram temple”.,” he told PTI.

Amid the row, the Congress hit out at the BJP, saying its "mask" has fallen off and that minorities were being "intimidated" under the Modi government. Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha contending that the BJP cannot wash off its hands by calling those making inflammatory statements fringe elements. "The truth is that there is no fringe anymore. These are mainstream elected BJP leaders either in Parliament or the Assembly... This is a political strategy. This is a manifestation of the most ugliest form of politics,” Jha said

Adding, "What is happening in Alwar? what happened in Dadri? you can see the kind of reactions happening all over the place where the BJP is currently in government, there is intimidation of the minorities." He was referring to the lynching of a Muslim man on suspicion that he had stored beef in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, in 2015, and the recent fatal attack on another man from the community by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan.

The BJP, however, sought to douse the controversy, saying the Ram temple can be built only with consensus. The Supreme Court, which is hearing the Ayodhya case, had recently said that the issue should be resolved through talks.